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31st May 2016

These are the baby names people absolutely LOVED last year

You might recognise a few of these...

Cathy Donohue

The latest update.

Spotted on JOE.ie, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has revealed the most popular baby names in Ireland in 2015.

There are no major surprises as for the fifth year in a row, Emily is the top female name and for the ninth year running, Jack leads the list.

The CSO also put together figures to show the most popular baby names from 1965.

Here are the lists of the top five boys and girls names last year and in 1965:

Top five in 2015

Girls

Emily (626)

Emma (449)

Ava (421)

Sophie (407)

Amelia (400)

Boys

Jack (752)

James (697)

Daniel (617)

Conor (558)

Sean (530)

Top five in 1965

Girls

Mary (3,229)

Margaret (1,395)

Catherine (1,351)

Anne (840)

Ann (807)

Boys

John (3,360)

Patrick (2,281)

Michael (2,057)

James (1,464)

Thomas (1,367)